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  Pere Ubu, 'Lady From Shanghai' (Fire)

  January 7, 2013 – "Black music is dead," David Thomas informed a journalist in 2009. "It's a rotten, stinking corpse." The remarks by the frontman and sole original member of Pere Ubu, which were part of a more sweeping condemnation of contemporary pop's lack of spine, may well have laid the foundation for Lady of Shanghai, the group's 15th studio album since The Modern Dance industrialized punk rock in 1978. …
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• Pere Ubu, 'Long Live Pere Ubu!' (Hearpen)

  September 15, 2009 – Pere Ubu have never been easy listening, but the Ohio art-punk legends have never been quite this difficult, either. Long Live Pere Ubu! is the exceptionally odd soundtrack to frontman David Thomas' absurdist play Bring Me the Head of Ubu Roi -- an adaptation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, which caused riots and scandal upon its Paris debut in 1896. So there's lots of theatrics to go with the Beefheart skronk, which will clear most rooms. …
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